5.05.2006

A nice little facebook message from [B] at UW-Milwaukee about my column on the proposed name change (I've bleeped things out as best as I could):

From: [B] (Wisconsin Milwaukee)

To: Brad V

Subject: f*** you

Message: listen kid. i dont give two sh*** if you go to madison or not. i'm from madison area and i'm glad i got outta town. i had the grades and act score to attend madison if i wanted, but i didnt want to. i choose to move outta small town world and actually into a major city. why the f*** you care so much if we change our names? i didnt vote in support of the name change, i think we should remain uw-m. but who the hell are you to come out and degrade us like that. make you feel better? feel high and mighty now do ya lil fella? what a puss. you know what, that's exactly why so many people in this state hate madison. cause you think you're so much better than everyone else. go ahead, call yourself elitists. the nazis did. dick. f' off. and stop writing about my school you lil prick. nobody cares that you go to madison. your university does employ more felons then any other university in the state. go ahead, check the 2006 university census. it's right in there. #1 school of drunk idiots. congrats. do yourself and all of us a favor. write about something other than your insecurities.

A) It's called satire - unless I really hit on more truths than I realized and provoked someone else's insecurities...and B) Why do UWM people keep proving my point to me over and over again?

If you have a spare moment, I'd suggest facebooking him [link removed] and giving him a poke, just as we would to any annoying goalie at an opposing school.

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Letters in Bottles began in January 2005 as "Letters in Bottles: The Island Pundit" at the University of Wisconsin. Started by Steve S, the blog includes a number of regular contributors, all of whom met originally on the "island" of Madison. We are: A veteran of the Iraq War. A former Peace Corps volunteer in the Caucasus. A law student in New Orleans. An Engineering grad student. We comment regularly on politics, world affairs, culture, news, music, and much more.